Today: London High Court hearing into the arrest of Gen Pinochet resumes. EU and Gulf Foreign Ministers meet in Luxembourg at EU General Affairs Council. EU-Slovenia talks on social policy and employment. West African foreign ministers meet in Abuja. Finnish Prime Minister Paavo Lipponen visits China. WTO committee on trade and environment meets in Geneva. Mrs Hillary Clinton's birthday.
Tomorrow: New deadline for Serbian forces to pull out of Kosovo. EU-Russia summit in Austria. Three-man inter-ethnic presidency of Bosnia-Herzegovina meets in Sara jevo. President Carlos Menem of Argentina arrives in Britain. Bodies of four Jordanian soldiers killed in 1967 war reburied in Muslim cemetery on West Bank. Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi in Milan court. New German parliament expected to elect Gerhard Schroder as Chancellor. Asia-Pacific defence officials meet in Tokyo. President Fujimori of Peru in Canada. Colombian president in US.
Wednesday: House of Representatives of Bosnian-Croat Federation of Bosnia-Herzegovina holds inaugural session in Sarajevo. Vietnamese National Assembly sits. OECD releases economic survey of Japan. Austrian parliament considers legislation requiring Austrian museums to return works stolen by the Nazis. President Chirac visits Switzerland.
Thursday: EU Justice and Home Affairs ministers meet in Vienna. President Clinton visits Florida for the launch of space shuttle Discovery. Presidents of Azerbaijan, Turkey, Georgia and Kazakhstan meet in Turkey. New Slovak parliament meets in Bratislava. South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission delivers report to President Mandela.
Friday: President Clinton visits New York for fund-raising event. ECOWAS annual summit in Abuja.
Sunday: Second round of parliamentary election in Macedonia. Polish cemetery reopened in Lvov, Ukraine. Municipal elections in 75 per cent of municipalities in Quebec, including Montreal.
Ireland
Today: Minister for Foreign Affairs returns from EU General Affairs Council in Luxembourg.
Tomorrow: Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs meets Danish Minister for Development in Copenhagen.
Wednesday: Oireachtas foreign affairs committee session with Secretary General of the Department of Foreign Affairs. Mr Necati Mnir Ertekun, senior foreign policy advisor to the president of northern Cyprus, addresses the Oireachtas European affairs committee at 2 p.m.
Thursday:
Former President Dr Patrick Hillery chairs first of a series of Instutute of European Affairs lectures on the theme, "Ireland - 25 years membership of the EU - What difference has it made?", 6 p.m. International relations expert Prof Fred Halliday talks on "Ethics and International Affairs: the British problem", TCD, Room 3074, 7.30 p.m.
Friday: Trocaire 25th anniversary conference on theme "Towards a Global Ethic".
Irish events should be received by David Shanks, Foreign Desk, on the Friday before publication.